Such Luminous Beings
A University of Tampa professor recently suggested that Texans deserve the fallout from Hurricane Harvey because of their support for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. “I don’t believe in instant Karma but this kinda feels like it for Texas,” Professor Ken Storey wrote.
Another ‘progressive’ educator swollen with compassion and floating above us on a higher moral plane.
One of Storey’s followers responded to the tweet by noting that there are “lots of good people in Texas,” and so he “may want to rethink this one.” “Well, the good people there need to do more to stop the evil their state pushes. I’m only blaming those who support the GOP there,” Storey elaborated, to which the same commenter replied by asking if he thinks the same about Trump supporters in Florida. “Yep, those who voted for him here deserve it as well,” Storey answered, though he later deleted his Twitter account.
Because when you hear of random people trapped and terrified, or learning that their loved ones were swept away and drowned, and when the local police chief is worried about “how many bodies” they’re going to find, the first thing you want to know, the really important thing, is, obviously, how they voted.
Oh. He teaches sociology, before you ask.
He knows people can *see* his tweets, right?
“I don’t believe in instant Karma but this kinda feels like it for Texas”
Karma is when leftists find themselves in the gulags that they intended for others.
He knows people can *see* his tweets, right?
He does now. Though his statement of “regret” seems unconvincing, given the unequivocal tone of his original comments.
I do like the fact that many people replied to the professor’s comments with photos and video of random Texans helping each other. As if trying to remind our high-minded educator how to be a half-decent human being.
In a moment, all the comedians who made fun of preachers blaming bad weather on gays will pile in on this guy….
No wait….
Seriously wait….
Any moment…
Tumbleweed
trying to remind our high-minded educator how to be a half-decent human being
A wasted effort. As noted by other tweeters, he’s not remorseful for what he said, but he’s sorry he was caught.
We muse often here about the mental health failings of ‘liberals’. I have no truck with this; they are nasty pieces of work and it is as simple as that.
This is Texas voting in 2016.
You see those two blue counties on the east side?
That’s where Houston is.
Foot. Mouth. Some disassembly required.
A University of Tampa professor recently suggested that Texans deserve the fallout from Hurricane Harvey because of their support for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
Or put another way, if you didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, you deserve to watch helplessly as your home is ruined or destroyed, while the people you care about are missing, possibly drowned.
As sentiments go, it’s terribly progressive.
I’d feel bad for the professor, but we conservative people are notoriously lacking in empathy.
And this is a sentiment that the professor was happy to repeat when challenged on it, on a very public platform, where anyone can see it, including his peers and employers. Which suggests either complete idiocy or an assumption that those peers and employers would not find such sentiment in any way remarkable.
In cases like this, where an obvious SJW walks back a previously strongly held position, I can’t help but think that it’s more, “Dude, don’t let them know we really think that, keep it in the dark.” than it is an attempt to cover themselves. On the other hand the administration probably have the economic catastrophe of Mizzou on their minds and are less forgiving than they might otherwise be.
In related, but lighter news.
In related, but lighter news.
“Coffee, my ass. I want some more liquor.”
Welcome to Texas, everybody!
Whoops. Misquoted the protagonist. It should be, “Coffee, my ass. I want to go back to sleep. I want to drink some more.”
Ah, sociology.
Too spastic to get into the physical education curriculum, and too dumb for the journalism school.
Snap judgements based on very little info are fun! Wheeeee!
Now I gotta go; I think I see a Nazi over by the tapockita-tapockita machine, and I’m gonna punch him! Yeah, I’m a-gonna punch him real good!
Perhaps he should be taken on a tour of the flooded areas, let him see the people that are suffering.
Would he be so flip then?
when you hear of random people trapped and terrified,
The reporter did good.
The reporter did good.
Yes, it’s strange to feel a moment of warmth for a journalist.
Surely this is a post for the “giant vaginas” tag.
Wait, no, this’ll be “giant (a synonym thereof)s”.
We should stop saying that people teach sociology. We need a better terminology.
He pushes sociology. There.
Just say no, kids.
He teaches sociopathy.
In related, but lighter news.
The guy who rescued the hawk is already in ‘internet’ trouble. In one of his videos, available at the link above, he shows a Confederate flag on his wall…
Cue outrage machine.
Google ‘hurricane hawk’ and you’ll find the joyous masses.
I’m just glad Professor Storey isn’t employed by the emergency services.
[ Scene: Woman and children trapped in rapidly submerging car. Helicopter buzzes overhead. A megaphone is heard. ]
“Are you a REPUBLICAN?”
Visiting assistant
professorpusher of sociology Kenneth Storey no longer is pushing.At least not in Tampa, I am sure Evergreen will snatch him up.
pusher of sociology Kenneth Storey no longer is pushing.
Karma’s a bitch.
“In one of his videos, available at the link above, he shows a Confederate flag on his wall…” That must be the one that’s no longer available.
The learned professor is taking the same stance for which Trump has been unendingly criticized: That there is good and bad on both sides. The professor recanted his heresy by specifying that anyone in Texas who voted for Trump deserves the hurricane’s wrath while those who voted for Saint Grandma of the Woods suffer the whimsical punishment of an unjust God.
Forgive him. He knows not what he does:He is a Sociologist. The practical joke of scientific methodists.
That must be the one that’s no longer available.
The GoogleTube censors are nothing if not thorough.
I don’t agree with the University of Tampa firing this guy.
Yes, the guy’s a douche of the first order, and demonstrates all that is wrong with politics in America. But his comments were legal and made on a personal Facebook page. Presumably he didn’t use university resources.
Freedom of speech and conscience means little if ordinary citizens get fired whenever they have the wrong opinions.
Heh.
This is the second interweb story I’ve seen this week where college admins do not seem to be completely in the thrall of the Screaming College Garbage Babies*.
This was also somewhat interesting:
The university chancellor quickly issued a written statement soundly condemning the unaffiliated newsletter and its sentiments (it’s quoted in full the comment thread).
(*® Iowahawk)
At least not in Tampa, I am sure Evergreen will snatch him up.
Or, maybe Gonzaga….
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/04/fired-mizzou-professor-melissa-click-hired-at-gonzaga-university.html
I might agree, except he made statements that reflected badly on his employer in a very public forum. Even though it (likely) was on his own time, I could see why they’d consider it misconduct. OTOH, the Google engineer who was fired is a different scenario: his paper was a strictly internal memo that was leaked to the media, with the intent of having him punished.
I don’t agree with the University of Tampa firing this guy.
Meh, make the left play by their own rules.
This was also somewhat interesting:
Over at This Ain’t Hell, the consensus seems to be that it is that it is a hoax.
…the Google engineer who was fired is a different scenario…
and he was lucid.
Spiny:
You could make that argument for almost any employee who publicly expresses a controversial opinion.
I might make an exception for top people who represent “the public face” of an organization, such as a president or CEO. The assumption is that their views can not but help leak down into the organization as a whole. But a visiting assistant professor (which is low on the academic totem pole, BTW)? No one thinks he speaks for the university as a whole.
And yes, I disagree with Google as well. Their behaviour was even worse.
except he made statements that reflected badly on his employer in a very public forum
I’m not generally a fan of people being fired for dumb and nasty comments on Twitter, but as you say, they do reflect badly on the university. Ideally, public embarrassment would be enough of a sanction and deterrent, maybe even a measure of shame. Assuming those concerned are capable of such.
the Google engineer who was fired is a different scenario: his paper was a strictly internal memo that was leaked to the media, with the intent of having him punished.
According to Mr Damore, his memo was written in response to a “diversity” meeting at which feedback, including written feedback, was actively solicited.
If you play by the same rules as the left, how can you claim to be morally superior?
This would be a fine time for Trump supporters to denounce the firing of this professor. It would demonstrate that individual rights are above politics.
It might even teach the professor a lesson.
It might even teach the professor a lesson.
Let’s not go crazy.
Ideally, public embarrassment would be enough of a sanction and deterrent, maybe even a measure of shame. Assuming those concerned are capable of such.
I see a flaw in your plan, David. 🙂
Let’s not go crazy.
Also, the Canucks are going to Lord Stanley’s cup this season.
Could happen.
I see a flaw in your plan, David. 🙂
Quite.
Also, the Canucks are going to Lord Stanley’s cup this season.
I’m wondering whether I should confess to having no idea what that is.
Ah, hockey.
A sport of some kind.
If you play by the same rules as the left, how can you claim to be morally superior?
Right, at one time it was “ungentlemanly” to spy or use submarines, but that didn’t work out so well. WWII was won because the Allies visited the same violence upon the Axis as they did to every place they invaded, but there was a pretty definitive difference in morality between the sides.
OTOH, you can be like the GOPe here in the US and A and lose every battle because you want to be “principled” rather than actually fight an unprincipled opponent.
Just because one fights dirty, doesn’t mean one is not in the right.
As much as it pains me to say, principles are only worth living by when all sides share them. I’m not prepared to jettison all principles, but there are some which need to be held in abeyance until the other side realizes the true gravity of abandoning them.
Meh, make the left play by their own rules.
Or in hockey parlance, at some point the gloves come off.
Just because one fights dirty, doesn’t mean one is not in the right.
Similar to any conflict. The moralists sit on the sidelines and speak disdainfully of both combatants. A favorite of the education set is that it doesn’t matter who started it. No decent civilization enjoys dirty conflict. No decent civilization truly wants war. But once war is presented, and in a sense Western Civilization is in conflict and moving closer and closer, when one side becomes impervious to reason, when the meaning of words, and thus laws, are severely undermined, either principles are abandoned or the nastier side wins. Actually the nastier side pretty much always wins. It’s just a matter of which side is more likely to return to accepting the meaning and the value of words and ideas.
Fine, but don’t claim to have the moral high ground.
But principles aside, a good reason to protect the right of employees to have controversial opinions outside of the workplace is not because you care about some arsehole assistant professor, but because you want to protect your own right to do the same.
In other words, if you won’t defend individual freedoms out of a sense of right and wrong, defend them out of your own self interest.
And sorry about sports reference. Dropped the ball there.
@Killer Marmot,
Easily, the same way I can claim to be morally superior when shooting back at someone shooting at me. But several people have rehashed this general line of complaint, so let me offer another I saw over at Ace:
I object to being a second-class citizen.
And if I have to play by different, more constraining, rules, I am implicitly acquiescing to being a second-class citizen.
At this point the rule in play looks quite well established: Refrain from offending the left too publicly or you’ll get fired, and “too publicly” will be arbitrarily determined in retrospect. John Derbyshire, Voula Papachristou, Donglegate, Jason Richwine, Paul Gottfried, Pax Dickinson, Justine Sacco, Brendan Eich (years retroactively), Charles Murray, Josh Olin, Curtis Yarvin… the list goes on.
You seem to assert that the “moral high ground” consists in I have to watch my mouth, Ken Storey can spew vitriol freely. Fuck that noise. That’s not the moral high ground, that’s a caste system. I would happily like to go back to a system where everyone has individual freedom to say whatever stupid shit they want, but that route seems blocked off. So I’ll settle for the second best that seems more achievable: everyone is treated equally, everyone has to watch their mouths.
What is the GOPE?
And sorry about sports reference. Dropped the ball there.
If you ever find yourself doing a sports quiz in the local tavern, under no circumstances do you want me on your team.
Comic books I can do, and films involving atomic radiation and/or giant robots.
GOPe = Grand Old Party (=Republicans) establishment.